Release dates, supported regions, and references for major Cloud Monitor features.
December 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Support for data ingestion from other cloud providers |
Create data ingestion tasks for Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Tencent Cloud to import monitoring data into Cloud Monitor. |
2023-12-30 |
All regions |
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Export threshold alert rules and site monitoring probe logs |
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2023-12-25 |
All regions |
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Event Hub supports debugging events with test data |
Send test data to validate event subscription results. |
2023-12-20 |
All regions |
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Event Hub supports custom templates |
Cloud Monitor provides default notification templates for each channel type. You can customize these templates by inserting variables. |
2023-12-18 |
All regions |
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Resource usage supports querying API usage statistics |
On the Resource Usage page, you can query API consumption, identify accounts with the highest API call frequency, and view daily call details. |
2023-12-10 |
All regions |
November 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Real-time data export APIs support all regions |
Cursor and BatchExport support public endpoints and VPC endpoints in all regions. |
2023-11-20 |
All regions |
September 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Intelligent thresholds |
Intelligent threshold alerts automatically adapt to historical metric data for cloud resources, display threshold boundaries, and detect abnormal spikes or drops to help ensure business stability. |
2023-09-25 |
All regions |
August 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Monitoring governance detection |
Based on your resource usage, Cloud Monitor infers required monitoring capabilities, builds a monitoring system, detects issues, and provides one-click fixes or governance recommendations. |
2023-08-30 |
All regions |
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Cloud Monitor agent |
The Cloud Monitor agent is more stable and includes bug fixes. It now supports non-Alibaba Cloud hosts managed by Cloud Assistant. |
2023-08-30 |
All regions |
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Event subscription |
When a resource metric meets alert conditions, Cloud Monitor automatically sends raw alerts to contact groups. Event subscription lets you customize alerts — for example, subscribe to system or threshold events, merge and denoise alerts, escalate contact groups, define custom notification methods, or push alerts in specific formats to target channels. |
2023-08-21 |
All regions |
July 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Mobile-based site probing |
Use mobile probing to monitor target sites over cellular networks. |
2023-07-24 |
All regions |
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Threshold alert notifications support PagerDuty |
Push Cloud Monitor alert notifications to PagerDuty by using alert callbacks. You can receive alerts through PagerDuty’s event handling or forward them to other third-party platforms from PagerDuty. |
2023-07-20 |
All regions |
June 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Threshold alerts support Function Compute |
When the webhook channels (DingTalk, WeCom, Lark, Slack) and delivery channels (Auto Scaling, Simple Log Service, Simple Message Queue (formerly MNS)) provided by Cloud Monitor do not meet your needs, use Function Compute to write custom code for broader alert handling. |
2023-06-06 |
All regions |
May 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Query alert notification results |
You can query the results and details of alert notifications for phone calls, text messages, and Webhooks. For example, you may fail to receive a phone call alert because of an overdue payment. |
2023-05-23 |
All regions |
None |
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New IP address database |
The console displays carrier information for the city of the probed target’s IP address. |
2023-05-20 |
All regions |
None |
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Real-time data export |
After enabling Hybrid Cloud Monitoring, use Cursor and BatchExport to export monitoring data in real time. Compared with DescribeMetricList and DescribeMetricLast, these APIs require no time range configuration, handle data latency automatically, include built-in deduplication, are simple to call, and support large data responses. |
2023-05-11 |
Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai Finance Cloud, and Singapore |
April 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Custom quotas |
Set custom SMS or phone call quotas. If monthly usage reaches the limit, the corresponding alert notifications stop to prevent unexpected charges. |
2023-04-15 |
All regions |
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Notification Center |
Receive alerts via subscription. Filter valid alerts, merge and denoise alerts, escalate contact groups, define custom notification methods, and push alerts in specific formats to target channels. |
2023-04-11 |
All regions |
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Site monitoring no longer supports TLS versions below 1.2 on browser servers |
TLS versions below 1.2 have security vulnerabilities. To align with mainstream browsers, Cloud Monitor no longer supports TLS versions below 1.2 on browser servers. |
2023-04-07 |
All regions |
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Browser-based network probe |
Browser-based probing captures request and response data from real browsers accessing monitored targets across regions and network environments, revealing network quality under various conditions. |
2023-04-04 |
All regions |
February 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Network Quality Analyzer |
Network Quality Analyzer provides end-to-end network quality analysis across the Internet. You can use it with your business scenarios to pinpoint network faults, optimize network quality, and integrate with other cloud services. |
2023-02-28 |
All regions |
January 2023
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Alert callback test |
Test whether the alert service’s webhook callback works as expected. |
2023-01-13 |
All regions |
January 2022
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Import and export alert templates |
Import and export alert templates to quickly create new templates based on existing ones. |
2022-01-29 |
All regions |
December 2021
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Real-time data export |
Export cloud monitoring data in real time by using APIs and store it locally. |
2021-12-29 |
All regions |
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Second-level monitoring |
Second-level monitoring applies to scenarios that require high-precision metrics for cloud products. You can enable second-level metrics for specified cloud products with one click. |
2021-12-01 |
All regions |
October 2021
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Alert blacklist |
Cloud Monitor suppresses alert notifications based on alert blacklist policies. |
2021-10-22 |
All regions |
July 2021
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Feature |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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External alert integration |
Use the Cloud Monitor alert service endpoint to allow external systems (non-Cloud Monitor) to send alerts through Cloud Monitor channels. |
2021-07-30 |
All regions |
May 2021
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Monitoring dashboards |
After ingesting monitoring data from on-premises IDCs, Alibaba Cloud products, and other cloud providers into Cloud Monitor, you can create monitoring dashboards to view charts for specific metrics. |
2021-05-20 |
All regions |
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Resource Usage Report |
Resource usage reports help with resource inventory, usage assessment, and cost analysis. You can upgrade high-usage resources to boost performance, or downgrade or release low-usage resources to reduce costs. |
2021-05-20 |
All regions |
December 2020
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Feature Name |
Description |
Release date |
Region |
References |
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Kubernetes container monitoring |
Cloud Monitor automatically discovers all Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) clusters under your Alibaba Cloud account, providing cross-region, centralized, and global container monitoring. |
2020-12-06 |
All regions |